{"id":109752,"date":"2021-04-06T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=184463"},"modified":"2021-04-06T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:03:16","slug":"we-sampled-tap-water-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/06\/we-sampled-tap-water-across-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"We Sampled Tap Water Across The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Connecticut, a condo had lead in its drinking water at levels more than double what the federal government deems acceptable. At a church in North Carolina, the water was contaminated with extremely high levels of potentially toxic PFAS chemicals (a group of compounds found in hundreds of household products). The water flowing into a Texas home had both \u2013 and concerning amounts of arsenic too.<\/p>\n<p>All three were among locations that had water tested as part of a nine-month investigation by Consumer Reports (CR) and the Guardian into the US\u2019s drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Since the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, access to safe water for all Americans has been a US government goal.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/we-sampled-tap-water-across-the-us\/\">We Sampled Tap Water Across The US<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/we-sampled-tap-water-across-the-us\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Connecticut, a condo had lead in its drinking water at levels more than double what the federal government deems acceptable. At a church in North Carolina, the water was contaminated with extremely high levels of potentially toxic PFAS chemicals (a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,1244,686,36,1825],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109753,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109752\/revisions\/109753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}